Revelation 1:4-8

Common English Bible

⁴John, to the seven churches that are in Asia:

Grace and peace to you from the one who is and was and is coming, and from the seven spirits that are before God’s throne, ⁵and from Jesus Christ—the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

To the one who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood, ⁶who made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be glory and power forever and always. Amen.

⁷Look, he is coming with the clouds! Every eye will see him, including those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. This is so. Amen. ⁸“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “the one who is and was and is coming, the Almighty.”

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John 1:1-5

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Story of the Word

1 In the beginning was the Word
    and the Word was with God
    and the Word was God.
²The Word was with God in the beginning.
³Everything came into being through the Word,
    and without the Word
    nothing came into being.
What came into being
⁴    through the Word was life,^[a]
    and the life was the light for all people.
⁵The light shines in the darkness,
    and the darkness doesn’t extinguish the light.

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Footnotes

John 1:4 Or Everything came into being through the Word,/and without the Word / nothing came into being that came into being. In the Word was life